Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. Today states reported 3,054 deaths from COVID-19—the highest single-day total yet, according to the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic.The seven-day average of daily deaths was also at a record high, of 2,276 deaths. Since mid-October, the U.S.
As COVID-19 cases continue to increase nationwide, some state officials still refuse to wear masks and address the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic. These individuals, alongside their followers, are pushing to end statewide mandates and other safety measures in place to stop the spread of COVID-19, failing to understand just how deadly the virus is.
Depending on who you ask, this holiday season will represent something markedly different. For some, it’s a breaking point after a difficult year, where people are loosening their own social distancing protocols out of a desire to visit with family. For others, it will be one of the first holiday seasons they’ve chosen to spend alone as COVID-19 cases continue to spike.
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.KENT NISHIMURA / LOS ANGELES TIMES / GETTYConditions are continuing to deteriorate in America’s hospitals and long-term-care facilities. Still the holidays loom.
The GOP senator knows he’s spreading dangerous lies about voter fraud. But he’s staying in Trump’s good graces, so it’s worth it.
Clinton put out the flames with his bare hands.
Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona helped quash motions to stop Trump from selling $13 billion in sophisticated weaponry to the United Arab Emirates.
A new COVID-19 spike in America’s long-term-care facilities emerged in the West and Northeast last week, with both regions reporting their highest numbers of new cases in the past six months. The Midwest and South saw a small downturn in new cases, which is promising, yet the week still saw the nation’s highest number of newly reported cases—51,574—in long-term-care facilities since we started collecting these data in May.
“Believe in the blood of Jesus. Believe in divine immunity,” King Jesus International Ministry’s Guillermo Maldonado said in a sermon.
News of the investigation comes just as President-elect Joe Biden is set to announce his nominee for attorney general of the United States.
The antitrust lawsuits were announced by the Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Their conditions for reopening schools are not unreasonable.
A key panel raises objections to the president’s campaign-trail promise of $200 in discounts for seniors.
Early in Netflix’s Mank, the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman) ambles onto an outdoor movie set, where he bumps into an array of glamorous characters. In a scene full of repartee with real-life figures such as the actor Marion Davies, the film honcho Louis B. Mayer, and the mogul William Randolph Hearst, the visual details of the environment might seem unimportant. But to Mank’s director, David Fincher, they mattered.
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to revisit some of the most memorable events and images of 2020. Events covered in this essay (the second of a three-part photo summary of the year) include the widespread protests against the killing of George Floyd, the realities of the growing coronavirus pandemic, historic flooding across China, locust swarms in Africa, a terrifying explosion in Beirut, and much more.
In 2020, I couldn’t keep up my longtime tradition—but I did get a better idea.
I’d like to please him, but I honestly can’t figure out how!
Latch hook is meditative, satisfying, and affordable.
Critics say the platform enables fraud and exploits holes in the social safety net.
President Trump has sent eight people to their deaths so far this year, breaking a 17-year hiatus in federal executions, and plans to execute five more in the final weeks of his administration. On December 10, International Human Rights Day, the federal government is scheduled to kill Brandon Bernard, a Black man who was 18 years old when he was convicted as an accomplice to the murder of a young white couple in Texas.
While the United States, Britain and other wealthy countries race to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus, a new report finds that as much as 90% of the population in dozens of poorer countries could be forced to wait until at least 2022 because wealthy countries are hoarding so much of the vaccine supply. A growing movement is calling for the development of a people’s vaccine and the suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access. We speak with Dr.
“If I don’t do that, it’s like not having had my cup of coffee.
Louis DeJoy is likely to last well into the Biden administration.
GoFundMe turned charitable giving into another form of social media.
“If I don’t do that, it’s like not having had my cup of coffee.
Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general and former House lawmaker, would enter Biden’s HHS without traditional health or management experience – but with immense power to undo Trump’s actions.
Louis DeJoy is likely to last well into the Biden administration.
